Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Queen. In reality, supersonic flights proved anything but peaceful. Both the X-1 and the Skyrocket, says Heinemann, met the strange and terrible phenomenon of supersonic...
...Life story included a step-by-step account of Williams' discovery of the two hormone-producing centers which collaborate to trigger the phenomenon of metamorphosis. Williams found the interdependent centers in the brain and the thorax of the moth...
Using these powers, Howe handed out more than $100 million in government aid for business expansion, and transformed Canadian industry from an awkward war-born phenomenon into a peacetime economy as well-balanced as any in the world. Howe also had a strong hand in forming Canada's postwar fiscal policy, conservative to the core. Ignoring the example of the U.S., Canada refused to impose direct controls on prices and wages, putting its faith instead in strong credit controls and increased production. The policy worked. At the start of the Korean war, Canada's cost of living rose...
...discount house is the biggest current phenomenon of U.S. merchandising. It has department stores, small dealers and other established merchants worried sick. To meet the "I can get it for you wholesale" competition, many established dealers have had to cut their own prices. One Chicago department store recently cut $335 General Electric refrigerators to $229, just $4 above actual cost. Said an executive of a Chicago merchants' association: "I would estimate that 90% of nationally branded major appliances are sold below the list price...
...final state of one-upness which counts; and Losemanship shows how this can be achieved . . . Savitt was beaten by Sedg-man. Mr. Shields should have drawn attention to the inexplicable speed of this phenomenon (58 minutes) . . . Surely the only explanation of the collapse of the one living exponent of the Tilden backhand must have been due (Shields should have said) to the "unfortunate atmosphere" and the "definite tension." These of course were fostered by the typical non-playing criticism, from the stands, of non-playing Captain Shields, who complained of the non-giving of a footfault against Seixas . . . To make...